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I would like to be able to go to Devices or open a collection of devices, or even from the queries section. Add whatever information I'm looking for in the "Columns to Fit" area then be able to export exactly what I have on my screen into Excel. It would make reporting so much more simple. For those small requests that managers give you.

Display "Microsoft Update" as data source.
If you enable "fallback to Microsoft Update" for SUP deployment you cannot see this as data source. You can only see "Distribution Point", "Cloud Distribution Point", "BrachCache" and "Peer Cache"

The ability to create email subscriptions gives rudimentary notification when alerts happen. The ability to run a powershell script would open the possibility of integrating with 3rd party monitoring and notification systems. Current systems such as Solarwinds, PRTG,nagios/icinga2 and others have REST interfaces that can easily be addressed from powershell. This kind of integration would enable shops that choose not to run SCOM a way to integrate SCCM alerts into their existing monitoring set ups.

Ideally the script call would be able to pass the alert data to the script in some fashion.

Request SCCM enhancement to search for compliance by IAVM# (IAVA, IAVB) for either Enterprise-level or individual site under SCCM reports. A single IAVM may have several KB #'s (ex: MS patches) or there are very limited search capabilities for most 3rd party applications. Capability to capability to search SCCM reports by IAVM# will reduce amount of time in searching/compiling compliance metrics and will allow for quicker reporting of overall compliance.

Ability to generate a report in SCCM to list Primary mobile device for a user. Lack of this reporting feature creates additional overhead to MDM Administrators in identifying the user's device to take any remote actions. E.g. The device name could be "iPhone" There can be 100's of device with name "iPhone". This should be a very basic reporting capability that should have been in place. Kindly consider this request and introduce this reporting feature.

It would be nice to have File Replication reporting for large sites. This way you can see all of Site to Site connection information and policies. Thus avoiding having to open and check each one for Rate Limits and Schedules. Maybe also tie in the Rate Limits from the DPs.

With the SQL view vSMS_ServiceWindow, there are a column Schedules. This column allows you to see exactly what day Maintenance Window is scheduled for. The correspond supported SQL view is v_ServiceWindow. However, that column isn’t listed without it being listed there is no way to determine what day an MW applies too.

Select distinct
isnull(SWin.Name,'No Maintenance Windows') as 'SWinName',
isnull(SWin.IsGMT,'') as 'SWinIsGMT',
SWin.StartTime as 'SWinStartTime',
isnull(SWin.Duration,0) as 'SWinDuration',
case
when isnull(SWin.ServiceWindowType, 0) = 0 then 'No Maintenance Windows'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=1 then 'All Programs Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=2 then 'Program Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=3 then 'Reboot Required Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=4 then 'Software Update Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=5 then 'OSD Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=6 then 'Corresponds to non-working hours'
else 'unknonwn'
end as 'SWinType'
from
dbo.v_Collection Col
left outer join dbo.v_ServiceWindow SWin on Col.CollectionID = SWin.CollectionID

Below are the results of the query above.
All Friday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
All Monday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
All Saturday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
All the time except for Sunday between 00:00 - 04:00 0 2019-01-09 04:00:00.000 1199 All Programs Service Window
All Thursday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
All Tuesday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
All Wednesday 0 2019-01-09 00:00:00.000 1439 All Programs Service Window
Exactly what day does the 4 row happen on? Are you sure? There is no way to tell from the SQL view.

So why is this information important? Knowing the exact details of MW helps when troubleshooting. This also allows for a dashboards/reports to be created so that CM administrators can quickly look to see if there are any problems allowing them to quickly isolate what problems they might have or better yet eliminate that as the likely issue. This will also allow CM admin to meet and validate they are meeting this KPIs for deployments.

To ramp up, this view, even more, translate all of the schedule items to their respective values.

With the SQL view vSMS_ServiceWindow, there are a column Schedules. This column allows you to see exactly what day Maintenance Window is scheduled for. The correspond supported SQL view is v_ServiceWindow. However, that column isn’t listed without it being listed there is no way to determine what day an MW applies too.

Select distinct
isnull(SWin.Name,'No Maintenance Windows') as 'SWinName',
isnull(SWin.IsGMT,'') as 'SWinIsGMT',
SWin.StartTime as 'SWinStartTime',
isnull(SWin.Duration,0) as 'SWinDuration',
case
when isnull(SWin.ServiceWindowType, 0) = 0 then 'No Maintenance Windows'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=1 then 'All Programs Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=2 then 'Program Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=3 then 'Reboot Required Service Window'
when SWin.ServiceWindowType=4…

Microsoft reports that have other reports linked, don’t work anymore with our modified folder structure. So we applied changes to those MS reports. In this case we didn’t create our own report but modified the MS reports. -> links should be added like this: ..\subfolder\reportname, not using the complete hardcoded folder structure. That way – since the linked reports are always in the same folder or in the subfolder like in the default structure – all links will work no matter in which folder the report actually sits.

currently there are two ssrs roles: configmgr report users, configmgr report administrators. I would like to give users a bit more permissions that the standard report users role wo making them administrators.

It would be so handy to have a "View Grid" option in the Report Builder design view with a "Snap to grid" feature. This will make designing the reports so much easier to align objects and text boxes etc.